* ''This article is based in large part on a translation of the article :fr:Hugues Ier du Maine from the

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on 10 July 2012.'' Hugh I was

count of Maine This is a list of counts and dukes of Maine. The capital of Maine was Le Mans. In the thirteenth century it was annexed by France to the royal domain. Dukes of Maine (''duces Cenomannici'') * Charivius ( fl. 723) – appears as ''dux'' in a docu ...

(reigned 900–933). He succeeded his father as of Count of Maine .

Life

He was the son of Roger, Count of Maine, and

Rothilde Rothilde (Latin: ''Rothildis''; 871 – 928/929) was a lady born into the royal family of Western Francia. Biography Rothilde was a daughter of the King of the Franks, Charles the Bald, son of Louis the Pious. Her mother was Charles’ second s ...

, daughter of

Charles the Bald Charles the Bald (french: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a ser ...

. He succeeded his father . By a marriage of his sister Judith

Europäische Stammtafeln ''Europäische Stammtafeln'' - German for ''European Family Trees'' - is a series of twenty-nine books which contain sets of genealogical tables of the most influential families of Medieval European history. It is a standard reference work for thos ...

Band II, Tafel 10 has the first wife of Hugh the Great as Judith. to

Hugh the Great Hugh the Great (16 June 956) was the duke of the Franks and count of Paris. Biography Hugh was the son of King Robert I of France and Béatrice of Vermandois.Detlev Schwennicke, '' Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der E ...

sometime before 917, Hugh became an ally to the

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ending a long period of hostility between them. Around 922, King

Charles the Simple Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin ''Carolus Simplex''), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–923. He was a memb ...

withdrew the benefit of the

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from Rotilde, Hughʻs mother and Hugh the Greatʻs mother-in-law, to entrust it to a favorite of his,

Hagano Hagano was a petty nobleman (''mediocris'') who achieved influence in Lotharingia and West Francia during the rule of Charles the Simple (898–922). He was a relative of Charles' first wife, Frederuna, and was originally from Lotharingia. Though ...

. The favoritism shown Hagano caused a great deal of resentment and led, in part, to a revolt against Charles the Simple that placed

Robert I of France The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

on the throne.Jim Bradbury, ''The Capetians: Kings of France, 987-1328'' (Continuum, London & New York, 2007), p. 34 Even after the death of his sister when Hugh the Great married a second time he remained an adherent of the Robertians.

Family

By his unnamed wife, very probably a Rorgonide,K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, ''Family Trees and the Root of Politics; A Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century'' (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1997) p. 194 he had: *

Hugh II, Count of Maine Hugh II (920–before 992), Count of Maine, son of Hugh I, Count of Maine, and an unknown mother, probably a daughter of Gauzlin II, Count of Maine. He was, like his father, a vassal of his uncle Hugh the Great. After the death of Hugh the Gre ...

(d. bef. 991).

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